Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-03
UNITED WORKERS.

Annual Meeting of That Society Yes- terday Officers Elected Reports Read-EncOuraging Work Done by the SOciety-SugsesGfOn by the VIsft- Ing Committee at tho AImshOuse- Discouragements and Encourage ments During the Past Year.
 The annual meeting of the United Work ers' society was held yesterday afternoon at half past three o'clock at the Center church chapel. The time was taken up in reading the various reports and eleeting officers to serve for the ensuing year.
 The following officers were elected:
 President-Miss Frances E. Walker.
 Vice presidentspMrs @ c. c. Bennett Miss l. F.
 Treasurer Mrs. E. Rowland
 Corresponding secretaries-Mrs. Eli Whitney, jr.,
 Chairman of relief commttee-Mrs. B. 0. Lake.
 Chairman of employment bureau-Mrs. w. W. Rodman.
 Chairman of alnlshouse committee-Mrs. L. Cowles.
 Chairman Of boys club--AIss S. M Day
 Mrs. Amelia D. Sheffield, the secretary, rendered her report. ''The past year has been @ year of both encouragements and discour- agements, but the former have predomi- mated. We offer our thanks for the liberal patronage of the past and hope that there may be continuance of this patronage in even larger measure in the future. Every thing has been harmonious. All our mem bers have joined with hearty good will to ad vance our aims as society, making us in character as in name, United Workers.
 "Our treasury has been sufficiently well sup piled to meet all the demands thus far made upon it, but the outlook for the future in this direction is far from cheering. Poverty does not actually stare us in the face, but it certainly comes within the range of our vision. The Kirmess of two years ago filled our coffers to overfowing for time, but sir fhaDd ap1c for bav ly inereased-in some departments have doubled and trebled-thereby necessitating much larger expenditure. There has been no change in our manner of work ing. This money has gone direct, ly toward relieving the wants of salaries. The surplus, however, has been gradually exhausted and our only actual de pendence at present is the sum set aside for nucleus building fund-for we have felt obliged to look forward to the time when something might be done with the State House and we be compelled to seek other quarters. We must therefore ere long have recourse to the public, or very naturally curtail our labors-an alternative most unwelcome to contemplate.
 ''It is but just to say that the relief com- mittee deserve words of warm praise for the faithful manner in which they have worked among the sick. The employment bureau has been very efficiently conducted. This department always renders valuable assist ance to scores among the mu1titudes only in need of work; and to scores as well who, by this means only, can obtain comfortable gar ments for very small amount of money, or for nothing at all, as the case may be- The usual annual sale was made and was suc- cessful. One of the pleasant features of this department is that it is not wholly an ex- pense to the society. It is always able to credit itself with sum of money from the sales
 s:The Boys club was carried on during the winter months as usual and with most favor able results. Some new features were intro duced and in whatever WAS undertaken by the boys improvement and progress were the rule. The committee deserve great credit for the success which has attended their eff forts to entertain and instruct these wild street boys.
 "The sewing school commenced in Octo- Der and continued it's sessions until May. There was an increase in the number of scholars and a larger average attendance than during the preceding year. More and better work was done, because a larger num- Der of teachers were in their places each week and the instruction was therefore more regular. The question to the advisability of continuing the school still remains to be answered, because general sewing is to some extent, at least, taught in the public schools.
 
 their visits during the year in the usual man ner.
 ''Tho closing year brought disheartening losses to our executive board. Our president, who had performed the duties of her office so efficiently, and was so thoroughly conversant and interested in the general work of the society that we felt an ever increasing need of her counsel and aid, resigned her position.
 1.-The efficient chairman of our Sunday school resigned Still another resignation we were called upon to accept, that of the capable and energetic head of our Boys club committee.
 'tWith it's vacancies filled the executive committee looks hopefully forward to the new year, so far the workers a1e oncern- ed, but just how to obtain the wherewithal to carry on varied work is the vital ques- tion before us as a society. We realize how many schemes of benevolence are placed be- fore the pnblic we acknowledge that our own particular objects have been specially pre- sented more than once, but our excuse, if al ways the same, is always good-'the poor ye have alwsy with you.'
 ''As another year opens before us we look forward and over our field of labor - the whole city-and seeing the so11owing, in the name of the deserving poor, whom we try to assist without regard to sect, national ity or color, we can but beg all chalitably in clined to remember the United Workers"